The sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land on the floor of St George’s Church — the oldest surviving map of the region.
Ten gold beads, each a spider on its web with a human face; the finest goldwork of the Moche lords.
The most beautiful painted tomb in Egypt, open to a handful of visitors a day at ten times the price.
Eleven kilograms of gold and lapis over the face of a teenage pharaoh, now in the Grand Egyptian Museum.
A kneeling gold elephant with a jewelled howdah, sealed in a temple crypt around 1420.
Roman theatre and bird mosaics at a city founded by Philip II of Macedon.
Ancient rock fortress with frescoes.
Vivid 5,000-year-old cave paintings.
One of Islam’s oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Canyon wall stencilled with hundreds of hands up to 9,000 years old — the oldest art in South America, and a UNESCO site.
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